If your not rooted, you may want to take advantage of some of the possibilities with root. My favorite mod after rooting was the Google wallet hack. If you're not rooted, personally your missing out but to each his own. Desperately want to take advantage of the apps to sd card feature but I use folder mount right now. Can't lose root access or my sim links are done. Folder mount was the alternative to not be no able to store app data on the sd card.

What is the best way to run this update, KIES or the built in software updater?

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Kies didn't work at all for me. It recognized that the phone had an update available, but it hung at 0% each time I tried downloading it. I left it for a half hour and it never progressed. This may have been due to the fact that I was using Kies for Mac, I never tried the Windows version. The built in software updater worked perfectly the first time I tried it, took about 20 minutes to download the file.

I just updated. While the update was almost 2 gb, it must have overwritten a large part of the already installed rom, because I had slightly more room on storage after updating. Liking this update so far. Still playing around with it though. Phone seems slightly more responsive.

I am hoping it removed that annoying wifi notifcation in the notification tray and allowed it to be put up in the quick toggles. I doubt it though as I am sure someone would have mentioned it. Such a dumb change from Verizon. Mine finished updating and is optimizing apps currently. I will report back later today. I definitely noticed (prior to update) the frame rate lag when opening and closing apps. So this will be one of the first things I test. Also the gallery had some pretty serious lag. So I will be checking that too. Hopefully it all works okay.

Okay ran some testing. Definitely noticable improvement in speed in both opening and closing apps and while in the gallery. It just runs smoothly. Some new wallpapers. WiFi toggle is the same on Verizon which sucks. Still digging tho.